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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:02:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Dmitrii Pasechnik <dima AT cs DOT uu DOT nl>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: console app on German Win9* - '^' character, etc
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Marius Gedminas wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote:
>> you know that, on a german keyboard, you need
>> to type a space after a deadkey like ^ or ~ or ` ?
>> However I can only speak for NT,
>> I could avoid W9x/W2k so far...
>
>Win2K is fine, but Win9x has problems with dead keys and console mode
>applications.  This problem is not specific to CygWin.
>
>IIRC, when you press a dead key, the console gets a NUL character with the
>proper scan code.  It is possible to implement a workaround by watching
>such key codes and manually supplying the appropriate ASCII codes.  I
>think FAR manager (a nice Win32 console mode file manager) does that.
>
>Other than that, you would have to install English keyboard layout and
>switch to it to enter dead keys.
>
But this only works for normal Win32 applications. MSDOS prompt does not
allow you to use the usual keyboard switcher.
Actually, MSDOS command keyb (keyb us,850,....)
on a German MSDOS prompt under Win98 does not do the right thing, either.

This begs the question - what is a lightweight replacement for MSDOS
prompt, maybe a one that uses Cygwin? rxvt ? 


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Dmitrii Pasechnik
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